Flight number record

B6 1281

JetBlue Airways · Boston to Richmond

Route: BOS → RIC
Departs: 11:49
Flights: 323
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s B6 1281, check with JetBlue Airways.

B6 1281 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, B6 1281's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.48%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 323 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When B6 1281 flies

B6 1281 flies BOS to RIC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:49, used on 53 of 323 flights, with 11:30 (45 flights) and 08:20 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:4953 flights16.4%
Departs 11:3045 flights13.9%
Departs 08:2039 flights12.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 11:49 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and B6 1281 runs 5 points better at 83.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

B6 1281 next to BOS to RIC

Every carrier on BOS to RIC combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 1,694 flights, so B6 1281 is 7 points ahead of it. JetBlue flew 757 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.0% on time. Across its whole network JetBlue Airways managed 72.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

B6 1281 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
B6 1281thin sample	323	83.5%	59 min	2.48%	B
All JetBlue Airways on BOS–RIC	757	72.0%	65 min	2.64%	C
All carriers on BOS–RIC	1,694	76.4%	64 min	2.72%	B
JetBlue Airways, whole network	234,468	72.7%	76 min	2.56%	C

Across the year

B6 1281 quarter by quarter

B6 1281 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 73.2%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 81 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.5%
Oct–Dec 202582 flights73.2%
Jan–Mar 202676 flights85.3%
Apr–Jun 202673 flights95.9%

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, B6 1281 did best on Monday at 89.8% on time and worst on Tuesday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why B6 1281 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,073 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
39%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
0%

40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,073 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,073 delay minutes reported on B6 1281.

Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 323 flights under B6 1281 in the data flew BOS to RIC. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 323 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking B6 1281

For a booking, read B6 1281 as 83.5% on time with 2.48% cancelled over 323 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

A flight number here means JetBlue Airways’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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